Elizabeth Russell Plunket Greene

Elizabeth Frances Plunket Greene (6 July 189918 December 1978 ) was an English crime novelist, writing in tandem with her husband, Richard Plunket Greene. She was part of the Bright Young Things immortalized by Evelyn Waugh in Vile Bodies (mostly inspired by the Plunket Greenes).

Biography Elizabeth Frances Russell was born on 6 July 1899, the daughter of Harold John Hastings Russell and Lady Victoria Alberta Leveson-Gower.

On 21 December 1926 Evelyn Waugh was a best man to the marriage of Elizabeth Frances Russell and Richard Plunket Greene. Patrick Balfour, 3rd Baron Kinross was a guest at the wedding. They had one son, Alexander Plunket Greene (1932–1990), who married fashion designer Mary Quant. Plunket Greene and Russell divorced in 1943. "a murder story which is quite out of the beaten track." (Aberdeen Press). According to The Punch: "It is not easy to strike an original note, but the Plunket Greenes have overcome the difficulty so emphatically that they may almost be accused of thumping." In 1934 they wrote Eleven-Thirty Till Twelve, a detective novel set in London Society.

In the 1930s, Elizabeth Russell was a fan of motor racing and won a grand prix race in Belgium.

Elizabeth Plunket Greene died on 18 December 1978, aged 79.